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While it is sad to see when something has been damaged, or that something once meaningful has been neglected, there is also a certain aesthetic quality to them. They often give the impression of having some incredible story to tell, if they could just talk. Here some that caught my [...]

Queen of Heaven is a Roman Catholic cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, consecrated in 1947. Operations were combined with the neighboring Mount Carmel Cemetery in 1965. There are currently over 122,000 people buried there, and over 3,000 annual internments. The adjacent Queen of Heaven Mausoleum, has 30,000 crypts.

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